This page contains the Smartboard notes and make-up / homework list from Quarter 2 2013-14 (Modules 1, 2, & 3) on Work, Power, Energy, Momentum, and Heat

MODULE #3 of QUARTER #2:

[Thu 1/23] => Wed 1/29
(Cold weather days = NO SCHOOL Thu, --Fri staff development day-- Mon, Tue)
Last day of the Quarter!
Watch "Nova: Making things colder"
Turn in any make-up work!

Wed 1/22
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Test #2 on Heat and Temperature

Tue 1/21
Jeopardy Review of heat and temperature
Create a sheet of notes to use on the test



Mon 1/20: MLK Day = No school!

Fri 1/17
Make-up work: Conduction/Convection reading and questions in file
Eureka 23 - Conduction
White boards on examples of conduction and convection
Heat can transfer different ways: Conduction is touching / contact
Convection is when hot gases or liquids rise and cool ones sink


Thu 1/16
Make-up work: Sheet practicing specific heat ideas (in file)
Higher specific heat capacity means it is harder to change the temperature
Water has a very high specific heat
White boards on answers to specific heat questions
Mosh pit analogy of why different things have different specific heat


Wed 1/15
Make-up work: Specific heat reading and questions in file
Mixing hot water with cold metal washers
Mixing cold water with hot metal washers
The temperature always ends up closer to where the water was
It is easier to change the temperature of metal and harder to change the temperature of water!


Tue 1/14
"Feed My Starving Children" => Make-up day
Mythbusters - liquid nitrogen head and tree; blue ice

Mon 1/13
Make-up work: Measurement of heat reading and questions in file
Mixing water of different temperatures
It averages out when it reaches equilibrium
CP Homework: (due Wed 1/15) Explain how one object can have greater heat while a second object can have greater temperature.


Fri 1/10
Make-up work: Complete T/F sheet (in file) including "Why do you say that"
NHT True / False game


Thu 1/9
Make-up work: Complete 21-1 (in file)
Eureka 20: Measuring Temperature
Thermometer game
Notes - practice: Heat flows until objects reach equilibrium
CP Homework: (due Fri 1/10) create a true/false question about heat and temperature and write an answer with explanation.


NO SCHOOL MON - TUE == WEATHER CLOSURE

Thu 1/2 - Wed 1/8
Marshmallow launcher project!
Get a set of equipment and rule sheet from Leslie. Build some sort of mechanism that will launch a mini marshmallow towards a target 2 meters away.


WINTER BREAK!!!!!

MODULE #2 of QUARTER #2:


Fri 12/20
Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each?
Junkyard Wars - Washer Toss
Getting us ready for our post-break project!

Thu 12/19
Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales
Eureka 19 - expansion and contraction (review)
Temperature scales are arbitrary!
Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing"
Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers!
CP Homework: What is the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius? Which do you prefer? Why? (due 12/20)


Wed 12/18
Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg1bmF5BVo
and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge?
Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet
Ball and ring demonstration
Simulator of gas molecules
Temperature measures average kinetic energy
CP Homework: What is one place besides the metal ball and the balloon of something expanding when hot or shrinking when cooled? (due 12/19)


Tue 12/17
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Test on Work, Power, Energy, Momentum, and Impulse

Mon 12/16
Make-up: Show Leslie your sheet of notes for the test
Physics Jeopardy REVIEW


Fri 12/13
Make-up work: Review sheet 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 (in file)
Take notes for the test
Create 2 questions that could be on the test
Practice momentum and impulse review sheet
Play review board game


Thu 12/12
Make-up work: Go to http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/mythbusters/, click on "Myth Results" and summarize how they tested 3 different myths
Mythbusters: Dumpster Dive and Bubble Wrap
both about changing momentum over more TIME to create less FORCE.

Wed 12/11
Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file)
Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force
Whiteboard - many forms to momentum and impulse equations
Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation?
Practice on worksheet
CP Homework: Write and solve a word problem about IMPULSE. (due 12/12)


Tue 12/10
Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea?
Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests
Impulse is change in momentum
Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse"
Impulse Challenge questions as a team
CP Homework: Write 2 sentences using the word "impulse" 1) using everyday, common meaning & 2) using the physics meaning. (due 12/11)


Mon 12/9
Make-up work: N/A
Watched "Blobbing" and related it to the marbles
Watched ESPN "Running with Momentum" video
MAKE-UP WORK TIME!


Fri 12/6
Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity
Outrageous Acts of Science: Fire Extinguisher skateboarding
Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers
Does it seem like momentum is conserved?


Thu 12/5
Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b
Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,...
Whiteboard practice using momentum equation
Worksheet practice mom. = m*v
CP homework:Worksheet #5 (due 12/6)


Wed 12/4
Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4
Stop a cannon ball with your foot?
Momentum is inertia in motion
Newton's cradle demos
Tennis ball on basketball demo
Conservation means total momentum stays that same
Practice worksheet
CP Homework: Give an example from daily life of something with large mass and small speed that still has a LOT of momentum (due 12/5)


MODULE #1 of QUARTER #2:


Mon 11/25, Tue 11/26 & Mon 12/2 - Tue 12/3
Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work).
Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator
Design and build a roller coaster
Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction


Fri 11/22
Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice.
- Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities
- Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food


Thu 11/21
Make-up work:Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy?
Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion?
Everything is solar powered???
(Time for make-up work)
CP Homework: Connect energy sources to the sun (slip in file) due 11/22


Wed 11/20
Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file)
Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy
Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground


Tue 11/19
Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7
Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs)
Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy
Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter
CP homework: Create and solve a word problem using P=W/t (due 11/21)


Mon 11/18
Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file)
Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics
Power = work / time and is measured in Watts
Determining our power running up the stairs.
CP homework: Complete lab sheet and Power homework problem (slip in file) (due 11/19)


Fri 11/15
Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file)
Conservation means total energy stays the same
Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE)
GPE depends directly on height
Started Mythbusters: Can you blow your own sail?


Thu 11/14
Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file)
Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules)
Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy
Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another
CP homework: Identify an example of energy conversion in everyday life -- from initial to next (due 11/15)


Wed 11/13
Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary
Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles
What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work!
Started reading for different kinds of energy


Tue 11/12
Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file)
Create examples of work
Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work
Eureka 8: work
Practice using the formula W=F*d
CP homework: Create your own problem using W=F*d and solve it (due 11/13)


Mon 11/11
Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not?
Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life?
In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement
4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work?